Cecilia Puga
Design Critic in Architecture
Department of Architecture
Cecilia Puga graduated in architecture from the Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC) in 1990. From 1987-1989 she took courses in history and restoration at Universita della Sapienza. As an architect she has won awards, among which is the Sergio Larrain Document Center in the Faculty of Architecture of the PUC (1995, 1st prize). Her professional work has been exhibited and published in Chile, the USA, Europe and Asia, and includes family homes, apartment buildings, interior architecture and the master plan and facilities for the Cono Sur company headquarters of the Concha y Toro Vineyard. Together with Chilean and internationally renowned architects, she was part of the Ochoacubo project built in 2005. From 2003-2006 she developed the project for the second phase of Document Center, and in 2008 she was selected by the Herzog and de Meuron office to participate, along with 99 other architects, in the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia, China. This year, she has been working on the design of urban spaces in Valparaiso, a project fund by the IDB. Cecilia Puga has worked as professor at the PUC and the Universidad Andres Bello, where she worked as Architecture Director between 2004 and 2007. She has also been a guest professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1998 she has been member of the Executive Committee of the Larrain Echenique Family Foundation, whose aim is to set policies and oversee the management of the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art.